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Title: 34 years ago today
Post by: adeeden on September 16, 2010, 12:15:00 PM
34 years ago today I recieved my first real bow for my 4th birthday!

Actually Dad says I was shooting a little hickory branch bow before that but this was the first real bow.

I still got that little bear bow. All five of my sons started out shooting with it, around a dozen nieces and nephews have shot it a few times as well as a bunch of neighbor kids.

Here it is the birthday gift that created the monster I have become (according to my Mom)!

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/firstbow001.jpg)

I was lucky I guess to grow up in a bowhunting family and to get an early start.

My dad is a bowhunter, my grandfather did a little bowhunting and I wouldn't be suprised if my great grand father had shot a few arra's!

There's something to be said about the drive to hunt being genetic I suppose. Or may be it was because when Mom went into labor with me Dad had just came in with a limit of squirrels! Mom was gracias enough to hold me back until Dad could finish cleaning them and drive her to the hospital! I got a feeling there was still a little squirrel blood under his nails when he held me the first time that day.......maybe thats where my desire to hunt came from!

Anyway I have a 3 year old great nephew who has been staying with me for the last 6 months or so, He's getting his turn in on my "first bow"!

Alot of lives have been touched by that little fiberglass thing!

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l87/adeeden/firstbow002.jpg)
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Mudd on September 16, 2010, 12:27:00 PM
How cool is this? Way!! I'd say...

Thank you for sharing with us.

God bless,Mudd
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: katie on September 16, 2010, 03:32:00 PM
Happy Birthday.  I hit 33 two days ago!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: bowhunterfrompast on September 16, 2010, 04:01:00 PM
Well...Happy Birthday   :thumbsup:  

That first real bow sure has touched a lot of souls over the years    :archer2:
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: mcgroundstalker on September 16, 2010, 04:07:00 PM
...  :thumbsup:  ...
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: 4runr on September 16, 2010, 04:40:00 PM
Happy Birthday!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Bonebuster on September 16, 2010, 05:43:00 PM
You know you have done it right if shooting is as much fun today as it was then!

Happy birthday!  :wavey:
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Hot Hap on September 16, 2010, 07:05:00 PM
Happy birthday Dennis! Hap
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: gobblegrunter on September 16, 2010, 07:14:00 PM
Happy Birthday Dennis! I hope that it's a great day for you!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on September 16, 2010, 07:27:00 PM
Happy Birthday to you, cool story also! Your still 4 months older than me, hahahahahaha! Have a good b-day night.
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: pow-bow on September 16, 2010, 07:32:00 PM
Nice to think that little bow has infected many with the archery bug.  Neat story.  And by the way Happy Birthday!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Tater on September 16, 2010, 07:50:00 PM
Thanks for sharing that

    Happy Birthday!!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Eugene Slagle on September 16, 2010, 09:21:00 PM
WOW, you started out shooting before I did & you're even younger than I am.

Happy Birthday bud.
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: CDR on September 16, 2010, 10:20:00 PM
I had one just like it but it was blue, man do I wish I still had that bow!! Sure brings back memories!
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: Gerardo on September 16, 2010, 10:26:00 PM
Happy Birthday!!!!

This is great
Title: Re: 34 years ago today
Post by: mrpenguin on September 16, 2010, 10:29:00 PM
Hey!! Happy B-Day!! I'm 34 today myself... how strange!!